Yesterday, one of Sony Online Entertainment’s venerable titles, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, began utilizing a hybrid free to play-subscription model. We had the opportunity to sit down with Creative Director Salim Grant and Director of Development Andy Sites to talk about Vanguard and what the future holds for the game. Keep reading! Since February, the … Read More “Vanguard : Free to Play Round Table Discussion“ »
Month: January 2013
The cherry on top of all of this: Guild Wars 2 will have a much milder death penalty.Players who have recently been downed several times will take longer to revive each time. If no one revives you, you can spend a small amount of gold to come back at a waypoint. It’s as simple as … Read More “Death in Guild Wars“ »
2012 is nearly over and it’s always fun to take a look back at the games that we spent lots of hours enjoying. We’ll be spending this week talking about the games that we, the staff of MMORPG.com, caught our attention in the year that was. As ever, join the conversation in the comments. … Read More “Garrett Fuller : Garrett’s Best of 2012Garrett Fuller : Garrett’s Best of 2012“ »
Europe in Berlin, London, Madrid, Spain, Russia, Moscow, Paris, France, Netherlands, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Sweden, the night of 7-10 for 6 points. It can be said, Wow Gold has gradually turned into windows after the game resumed in the “windowsâ€. Reached the on the new tab at the top of the page or go directly to … Read More “Vendors will have a fixed price for your skin“ »
Barbily Games has announced the arrival of enhanced 3D graphics. After responding to player feedback, the dev team has been hard at work enhancing the graphics to make the game more “eye friendlyâ€. In addition, the team has also announced that prizes will be awarded to the entire community for building the number of “likes†… Read More “Star Supremacy : Now With New Graphics“ »
When freak natural disasters began rocking much of Azeroth just prior to the Cataclysm, the dwarves lands were not spared from the calamitous upheavals. A series of violent quakes tore through areas surrounding Iron forge, reducing settlements to rubble and taking the lives of many innocent dwarves in the process. To glean answers as to … Read More “Three dwarves clans—lived united in Iron forge“ »
“If we could have done anything different, we probably wouldn’t have announced the game when we did,†saidWilson. “We could have waited a little longer. We thought we were closer to release. We want people to get excited, but we don’t want them to feel like they’re strung along. We always try to have a … Read More “The developer of “Diablo 3″“ »
The names and function of the stats changed several times during development as well. Ironically, after experimentation with up to five attributes, including a system where each attribute granted more or less identical bonuses to each class, the developers returned to the classic four attributes of Strength, Vitality, Dexterity, and Intelligence. The bonuses provided by … Read More “These runes were small objects that were placed in skills“ »
The latest Funcom financial report is out and contains some interesting tidbits of information, including the note that player activity in The Secret World is up 400% since last month’s relaunch as a ‘buy to play’ game. Funcom is also reporting that over 70,000 copies of TSW have been sold since the relaunch. … Read More “The Secret World : Player Activity Up 400% Since Relaunch with B2PThe Secret World : Player Activity Up 400% Since Relaunch with B2P“ »
ugamesmall.com.com’s Bill Murphy examines five MMO facets that could stand to be spiced up a bit in this week’s list.ant to buy cheap diablo 3 gold ? We are professional cheap diablo 3 gold provider. We dedicate ourselves to offer the game players with the most reliable and high grade service,in meeting the requirements of game players to sell and trade in-game items,we provide gamers with fast transactions, 24-hour customer service and guaranteed transactional security,and most important,at the competitive price while maintaining the high quality. I’m not one that’s prone to complain.  Generally, even as a critic, I can find the upsides of every negative.  I’m habitually and uncontrollably a “glass half fullâ€Â kind of guy.  Still that doesn’t mean I’m content with everything to remain as is because there’s no room for improvement.  I love MMOs, and I’ve long since learned that their weaknesses are sometimes what define them as a genre of games.  There’s a growing sentiment that ugamesmall.comaren’t evolving but rather remaining stagnant because of some cynical viewpoint that everyone just wants to duplicate WoW’s success.  I think companies are starting to realize that WoW is a fluke of the industry, and hopefully that means that the designers will be able to seek what designers should always strive for: innovation.  It may be incremental, but I do believe the evolution of the MMO is already underway with currently released titles and those on the horizon.  Here then is a laundry list of things I’d love to see touched by innovation In the August edition of the Fallen Earth State of the Game letter, producer Dave “Archangel†Haydysch begins by talking about the changes brought in the 1.6 patch. He then continues with a listing of the items that will be receiving attention in the patches set to roll out this fall. Combat We’ve … Read More “Five ugamesmall.com Facets that Need Innovation“ »